Abstract
Quality control activities in industry and practice are fundamental in maintaining the safety and efficacy of complementary medicines for customer and patient usage. Internationally, however, there is still great variation and inconsistency of active components in herbal medicines. In order to address these issues, there is an urgent need to develop internationally recognised facilities and methods of quality control for herbal medicines. This review covers the multiple interdisciplinary nature of quality control, including study of traditional Chinese medicine practises, the development in pharmacognosy and the respective analytical methods for fingerprint and quality standardisation of herbal medicines. A combination of these analytical methods will therefore provide a quality control framework for the evaluation of all herbal medicines.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Comprehensive Bioactive Natural Products : Quality Control & Standardization |
| Place of Publication | India |
| Publisher | Studium Press |
| Pages | 137-179 |
| Number of pages | 43 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1933699582 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- quality control
- herbs
- therapeutic use